The first episode, which tries to propel the story by vaulting the viewer back and forth between Texas, Syria and Indonesia (call it the «Game of Thrones» effect), ends with a
bit of a cliffhanger in Indonesia, when Ford, after viewing massive illegal deforestation in a supposedly protected national park, intones: «This is unbelievable... I can't wait to see the Minister of Forestry, I can't wait.»
Sucker Punch ended the game with one hell
of a cliffhanger ending that had many a gamer, including myself, picking their jaw up off the floor.
In One Thousand and One Nights, the storyteller Scheherazade escapes execution dawn after dawn by telling her misogynist husband a nightly
series of cliffhangers — each one prompting him to delay her death by one more day so he can find out how the tale unfolds.
But those players also knew the game had one
hell of a cliffhanger ending and made mention of a sequel, known as The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky: Second Chapter.
Death Cure starts with a slam - bang train robbery before it segues into a number
of cliffhangers in which the «cliffs» are urban canyons of glass and steel.
Hah, yes, because I'm taking a break to write the sequel to Encrypted next, I didn't want to leave EE5 with too
much of a cliffhanger (though I was a little tempted — I almost didn't write that epilogue!).
The last volume ended with one
heck of a cliffhanger — clones are popping up all over the place and now they're being pitted against each other in a war that few saw coming like this.
But now ALL the ballots are paper, and the Democrats (who are the underdogs in most
of the cliffhanger Senate races) are starting to question whether all the votes were counted on Election Day — and that's BEFORE we even broach the question of absentees et al..
Open Loops in TV shows are the
equivalent of that cliffhanger that keeps you up at night, consuming your mind with thinking about what's going to happen the next week, or that story line that was never quite explained.
Here's the beauty of a miniseries where each episode is the length of a real movie: It's like having an
abundance of cliffhangers leading into sequels that are just as good as the first.
Though France is home to Western Europe's largest Muslim population, the question of whether someone could be both has surfaced here recently,
ahead of a cliffhanger presidential election on Sunday.
As a communication and dramatic arts major at Coastal Carolina, he understands the art of the well - placed teaser, the
tension of a cliffhanger.
Lazio, who performed well on primary day in his native Long Island and Westchester, where both he and Wilson now live, insisted the GOP candidates in two
of the cliffhanger state Senate races (Oppenheimer - Cohen and Johnson - Martins) would have been helped by his candidacy.
The victory, after
weeks of cliffhanger budget negotiations and literally hundreds of protest actions by concerned parents and educators, was sweet indeed for teachers who can now close up their classrooms with the knowledge that they'll see their students again in September.
Mr. Foley withstood a credible challenge by state Sen. John McKinney of Fairfield and will now face incumbent Gov. Dannel P. Malloy in the November election, which will be a
rematch of the cliffhanger won by Mr. Malloy in 2010 by 6,400 votes.
He can't help himself from following that shot with a deeply curious coda, which uses the movie narrative
logic of cliffhangers and sequels to position The Post as prequel to All the President's Men.
Sadly, Grubbins On Ice would stand as Costume Quest's sole expansion, and the sequel, Costume Quest 2, sort of washes its
hands of that cliffhanger and goes back to a Hallowe'en focus.
The second half of «Tomb Raider» leaves its open - air action sequences behind, some good (the Hong Kong harbor chase), some digitally ridiculous (Lara's triple
Axel of a cliffhanger above a waterfall).
Yes, Avengers: Infinity War ended with the
mother of all cliffhangers, but the twisted timelines for upcoming movies like Spider - Man: Homecoming 2 prove that the circumstances created by the finale won't last.
The acclaimed second season of «Better Call Saul» ended with a
pair of cliffhangers: determined to prevent his brother from practicing law, Chuck staged an elaborate con, secretly recording Jimmy's confession to a felony, and when Mike set his sights on sociopathic cartel boss Hector Salamanca, an ominous intervention stopped him from pulling the trigger, raising questions as to what other dangerous players may be in the game.
In
place of cliffhangers and sudden betrayals, John Carter offers political blather and xeno - babble — come to think of it, all that's missing is a senate debate and a pod race.
He hasn't stopped working, but the glory
days of Cliffhanger and Die Hard 2 must seem a distant memory now.
The featurette was created around the
time of Cliffhanger's release, which is why Stallone appears in Demolition Man garb for his narration shots.
There's the
delight of the cliffhanger, but there's also the arguably even deeper delight of the time between episodes, anticipating and speculating about what will happen next.
Moreover, there is a concern that writers may include
lots of cliffhangers, epilogues and anything else that might keep readers reading for a little bit longer.
It's fair to say that «The Promised Neverland» has been a roller
coaster of cliffhangers and dramatic revelations since chapter one.
The story mode is eminently brief and unravels precisely nothing of narrative value, concluding with
less of a cliffhanger and more of the kind of twist you'd find in halfhearted Creepypasta.
Stranger Things ended on a
bit of a cliffhanger, with lots of lingering questions about just who was involved in what, where everyone ended up and even a few questions about who was alive and who wasn't.
The Conjuring 2 belongs to Wilson and Farmiga as the sincere, loving, slightly square Warrens, with Wan tightening the screws for a rousing
series of cliffhangers that should have audiences screaming.
After filming part one
of a cliffhanger episode, which ends with Penny getting kidnapped, Bolt escapes to try to rescue her.
Sucker Punch ended the game with one
hell of a cliffhanger ending that had many a gamer, including myself, picking their jaw up off the floor.
Neither full game nor free demo, Kojima's attempt to bridge the events of Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker and the upcoming Phantom Pain acts as both a FOX Engine showcase, a playable tutorial for Snake's massively overhauled gameplay and a shameless story teaser that sets up one
heck of a cliffhanger.
As you'd expect from a movie that's the first half of a book, there isn't really an ending to the movie, and it doesn't naturally end on much
of a cliffhanger either, so if you walk out of the theater feeling tepid, this will likely be one of the major reasons.
I was hoping I would like Ultraman, and I did enjoy the first volume, which ends on a bit
of a cliffhanger, making the second volume a must have.